, 1887-06-21
OUTSIDE NEW YORK aAasoa
Quaint Scenes on the Fishing panlA.
All Sorts of Luck.

Quaint Scenes on the Fishing panlA
All Sorts of Luck.
When the Bay Ridge had stopped a net
work of lines wen over her sides. Then
came a period of flshless suspense. A man
on the upper deck hauled in his line. and
gave a great cry of disappointment when he
found on his hook what looked like q piece
OF glue, 1t was a jelly fish. The Jelly
fish has very inexpensive features and Is
about as gamy as q shingle.
Suddenly n cry of excitement went up
from the multitude. An angler had got
q bite. 1t was a most promising bite, and
great beads of sweat stood out on the
mans face as he hauled in 100 feet of line.
Then the crowd greeted the poor little fish
on the end of the line with jeers of de-
risfon. 1t was a small, corpulent, yellow
fish, which some one said was a sea robin.
Tile knowing ones Slid that where the sea
robin nests the other fish are not to be
round; but, as usual, the knowing ones
were wrong, for a school of sea bass came
racing along and were lured aboard the
boat in great numbers. A novice came
down out Of his state room wearing the
only plug hat On the steamboat, and was
greeted with cries of, "Say, lend me the
dicer to put my fish in"
The novice put away his silk tile, pur-
chased a dapple gray sea hat for seventy
NV cents, and threw his line into the sea.
1t wound itself around twenty other lines,
and the novice became the object of much
objurgation before his line was disen-
tangled. While he was working ut the
snarl q hook from the upper deck came
down n took of his new hat. The
greatest of skill is required by those on
the lower deck to dodge he hooks from
above. Finally the novice dropped his
line down on the bed of the ocean and
awaited a bite. When he pulled in he ex-
pected to bring a fish from the depths,
and he was nightly surprised to bring
down the tackle and curses of a man
above him on the upper deck. Just when
his line went aloft he couldn't tell. 1t Is
a common habit of tackle to 60 up tha
way, and frequently a man on the lower
deck would call out to some follow above
him: when you get lone with my line
send it down here"
A vehement individual, who had
brought no luck along with, him began
ut this j%uncture to scream: "Move the
boatr'
A German on the lower deck took up
the refrain, but stopped his noise when
he got an energetic bite.
G a gaffi Git o gaffr' shouted sew
eral men excitedly. He's got a whop-
perl"
When the tackle came In sight a puny
sea bass was squirming on the end of the
hook. He was, however, the advance
courier of some big fish. A fish on its
way to the upper deck would slap a man
down below square in the face, but the
man didn't seem to mind such an act of
familiarity.
The novice was thrown into q paroxysm
OF glee by pulling up q large blonde OBJ
Ject with blue eyes and an expressive
mouth like n bull pip 1t was a conger
eel. AS soon as it came aboard q young
man came along and asked: "D'ye want
that felleri"
The novice said no, and the young man
put the eel in his basket. This man repre-
seuted a character that Is always to be
found on fishing excursions. He collects
the fish caught by those who have no use
for them, and goes home at night and
smothers his conscience with layers of lies
about the number of fish he has caught.
The walls of the cabin of the Bay Ridge
are adorned with portraits of the varieties
of fish that an excursionist is liable to
catch. Yesterday, however, the party
caught fish whose likenesses are not down
on the bills. One fish caught an angler
and was about to pull him down from the
hurricane deck when a dozen willing
hands seized the line and hauled a sub
marine monster to the surface. 1t was q
young shark. There was great excite
ment when the shark tried to get aboard
the steamboat. One of the anglers re-
dnced him to a comatose condition with a
blow Oh the head, and he ceased his
struggles and was laid out on deck just as
the screamer up above renewed his cry of
"Nfove the boatI'
Everybody else seemed to be seized with
hes same desire. 1t was said that no more
hsh could be expected there after the shark
had come, for nc s~elf-respecting sea bass
Will stay In the company of a shark. The
anchor was reefed, the engineer gave the
big steel machinery q few boosts with a
handspike n the steamer went to another
bank.-New York Sun.
DR.. NORRIS sPECIEIU sALvE.